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PhD in Management

Your doctoral journey is the start of your exciting career as an innovative researcher and professor of management.

Message from the Academic Director

Ella Miron-Spektor

Academic Director, PhD ProgrammeProfessor of Organisational BehaviourThe INSEAD Dutch Alumni Fellowship in Leadership, Diversity and Governance

Your Passport to a Prestigious Academic Career

The INSEAD PhD Programme is designed to amplify your talents by offering the best training, experience and advice and gives you firm foundations for a successful career in business academia. With a generous fellowship, it is the ideal springboard to secure positions at the most respected academic departments worldwide.

As a doctoral student at INSEAD, you get the chance to collaborate with globally renowned faculty and thought leaders from our campuses in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as from our alliance partners, The Wharton School, Sorbonne University and Tsinghua University.

INSEAD’s faculty are deeply invested in your well-being, training, and development, helping you become an outstanding scholar. Our interdisciplinary curriculum provides the depth and breadth needed to develop rigorous and relevant research in a truly unique, diverse and global environment that gives you the freedom to develop your unique research...

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The INSEAD PhD Programme is designed to amplify your talents by offering the best training, experience and advice and gives you firm foundations for a successful career in business academia. With a generous fellowship, it is the ideal springboard to secure positions at the most respected academic departments worldwide.

As a doctoral student at INSEAD, you get the chance to collaborate with globally renowned faculty and thought leaders from our campuses in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as from our alliance partners, The Wharton School, Sorbonne University and Tsinghua University.

INSEAD’s faculty are deeply invested in your well-being, training, and development, helping you become an outstanding scholar. Our interdisciplinary curriculum provides the depth and breadth needed to develop rigorous and relevant research in a truly unique, diverse and global environment that gives you the freedom to develop your unique research identity. Moreover, INSEAD’s close connection to business, government and society offers the resources and opportunities to conduct your research in the real world, including access to the school’s centres of excellence and leading behavioural laboratory facilities in France and Singapore.

Our world’s most complex challenges demand innovative solutions from the next generation of scholars. Join the INSEAD PhD Programme to advance your field, expand your knowledge, and make a lasting impact!

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Ella Miron-Spektor

Academic Director, PhD ProgrammeProfessor of Organisational BehaviourThe INSEAD Dutch Alumni Fellowship in Leadership, Diversity and Governance

Why an INSEAD PhD?

The Transformation of Your Career Path Starts From Here

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The only two-continent programme

The INSEAD PhD in Management is the only such programme to run across two equal status campuses on two continents in...Read more The INSEAD PhD in Management is the only such programme to run across two equal status campuses on two continents in France and Singapore, and the school’s exchange programme with the Wharton School in America adds the option of a third.Read less 2

The most culturally diverse in the world

Sometimes it feels more like studying on five continents, as the student body is the most international in the world. A...Read more Sometimes it feels more like studying on five continents, as the student body is the most international in the world. A typical intake has as many nationalities as it has participants, each bringing a different perspective to the debating table. The faculty is also one of the most international at a top business school.Read less 3

…and yet the most intimate

INSEAD may be one of the largest and most prestigious postgraduate business schools in the world, but the PhD Programme...Read more INSEAD may be one of the largest and most prestigious postgraduate business schools in the world, but the PhD Programme remains small and intimate. With a maximum of eighteen or so places a year, shared across our two campuses, the student body is close and supportive. Everyone knows everyone else, regardless of their specialist subject. With partners and children encouraged on campus, there is a definite family feel.Read less 4

Close relationships with world experts

Perhaps most important of all, the relationships with our faculty are close too. INSEAD professors are the world experts...Read more Perhaps most important of all, the relationships with our faculty are close too. INSEAD professors are the world experts in their fields, yet their strong ethos of support, collaboration and mentorship is distinctive. Whether in the first two years of classes, or the following period of independent research, the insights and guidance of the world’s best teachers and researchers are always available to our PhD students.Read less 5

A stimulating interdisciplinary environment

INSEAD is also unusual in taking an interdisciplinary approach. Professors and PhD students do not simply work across...Read more INSEAD is also unusual in taking an interdisciplinary approach. Professors and PhD students do not simply work across two continents. They also collaborate across academic areas, offering an even greater breadth of research opportunities and different perspectives.Read less 6

Full financial support

As well as moral and intellectual support, INSEAD offers generous funding. Almost all PhD students benefit from our...Read more As well as moral and intellectual support, INSEAD offers generous funding. Almost all PhD students benefit from our scholarships and living allowances, which come with very few strings attached – except our high expectations of our students. View INSEAD's Full Financial Support to all PhDs. Read less 7

Outstanding career potential

Given all these INSEAD differences, it is hardly surprising that our graduates go on to obtain academic positions at the...Read more Given all these INSEAD differences, it is hardly surprising that our graduates go on to obtain academic positions at the best business schools and universities worldwide. Our placement record is truly excellent.Read less

Areas of Specialisation

Our eight choices of specialisation cover the whole breadth of business – and the entire business school curriculum. During the first two years of the programme, there are core courses common to all areas, giving you...

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Our eight choices of specialisation cover the whole breadth of business – and the entire business school curriculum. During the first two years of the programme, there are core courses common to all areas, giving you insights from other disciplines and confidence for your future career. As a PhD student, along with these core courses, you will take a set of advanced course requirements applicable to your chosen field of specialisation, and these must be met in order to qualify in the field.

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When you join the INSEAD PhD in Management, you become part of an extraordinary global community. Explore the programme through the experiences of our students, alumni and faculty experts.

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